Kristin Henry is a poet, writer, editor, performer and teacher. She has published seven books and is currently writing a collection of poems and creative non-fiction short stories as part of a PhD at Deakin University, researching the impact of family and community networks on the wellbeing of older Australian women. Kristin has a long, happy history with the Poetry Bus, and is very excited about the prospect of reading her work again for the wonderful audience the Bus attracts.
Read their release – How to Calculate the Love
Michael McGirr‘s stories have appeared in many places including most recently The Big Issue fiction Edition 2020. His latest book is Books that Saved my Life (Text). He works for Caritas Australia.
Read their release – Like as the Waves
Meg Mundell is an author, journalist and social researcher. Her books include two novels — the Davitt Award-winning The Trespassers (UQP, 2019), and the multi-shortlisted Black Glass (Scribe, 2011) — and the edited collection We Are Here: Stories of Home, Place & Belonging (Affirm Press, 2019), a selection of true stories by people who have experienced homelessness. Meg loves animals, plants, the ocean and exploring old abandoned buildings. Raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, she lives in Melbourne with her partner, their son, and Gizmo the cat.
Read their release – Other Creatures
Amanda Piper is a photographer who is drawn to spontaneous moments, and to the wonder of nature. She uses photography as a form of daily journal, and when not taking photos, loves spending time with her family playing, dancing and reading.
View their photos – How to Calculate the Love
Bernice Steinfort grew up in the inner suburbs of Melbourne and now lives in Maldon with her husband John and kelpie, Douglas. A keen student at Rotunda, a school for Creative Writing at Victoria University, Bernice embarked upon a career as a Funeral Celebrant. Part of this role includes the ability to empathize in the commonality of the human experience. Bernice enjoys exploring themes of love, loss and experiences that inform and shape who we become. Her writing is often personal and bitter-sweet, focusing on people of her everyday past, present and future.
View their release – Love and Distance
View their release – The Dig
Alice Pung is author of One Hundred Days, a fractured fairytale exploring the faultlines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.
Alice Pung is an award-winning writer, editor, teacher and lawyer based in Melbourne. She is the bestselling author of Unpolished Gem and Her Father’s Daughter and the editor of the anthologies Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson.
View their release – Love on Slow Release – Alice Pung
View their release – The Two of Us – Barry Garner and Bruno Lettieri – Alice Pung
Joshi Joda
Love to capture natural light and colour image with a way of expressing our emotion.
There are no rules and no answer. It would be hard to put on an effort but it simply fun time.
View their release – Various Expression – Joshi Joda
View their release – Bathing in The Afterglow of Bruno’s Night – Joshi Joda
Azzurra is a mother and a migrant for love. Her passion for social justice, sound policies and effective laws lead her to become a lawyer, complete a PhD in labour law and join the public service. Azzurra sees poetry as an unfiltered means of expression and a conduit to find the meaning of life.
View their release – M.Azzurra Tranfaglia
Andrew Williamson wandered through Melbourne over twenty years ago and ended up staying. At times he’s worked as a chef, a teacher and as a manager with arguably his best contribution into public education, especially TAFE. Andrew lives in Footscray.
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Barry Garner was born in Melbourne in 1956. He grew up and went to school in the inner suburb of Carlton and later worked in and around the same area. Barry studied creative writing at TAFE as a mature aged student and it was there his desire to write began. Several of his pieces were published in The Age and Eureka Street. Barry has two children, four grandchildren and two stepchildren. He lives with his wife Carolyn in Sunbury.
View their release – Barry Garner
Kaye : Kaye re found her love of writing and words and letters. The reader accompanies Kaye as this refinding occurs through her letters. The first is written after her first lesson. The second at the end of the five-week Introductory Writing course. A few years later, Kaye receives an invitation to have her letters published. Her third letter explodes with an excitement at receiving an unexpected hand-written invitation. This trilogy of letters is about the joy of the handwritten letter which is suffused with love of words and love of ink on paper.
View their release – Kaye Archived 1 Handwriting Letter
View their release – Kaye Archived 2 Handwriting Letter
View their release – Kaye Archived 3 Handwriting Letter
Gladys Adipranoto is an orthopaedic surgeon and mother of two children. She loves learning foreign languages, the windows to culture. This is her first translation of an English Poem. She hopes you all enjoy it and become curious about Indonesian.
View their release – Gladys Adipranoto
Angelina Gina
I am a dentist who loves photography. During this pandemic, people had to stay at home and it made Bali different. No local tourists and no overseas tourists. All was silent and everybody had to close their stores. It broke my heart and I couldn’t capture this moment with my camera, but I wanted to let you know from these photos that Bali is still beautiful as the world already knows – Angelina Gina 2021
View their release – Angelina Gina
Adil Al-Gassas
A renowned Sudanese-Australian contemporary writer of short stories and, sometimes, prose poems. His works appeared in several Sudanese and Arab newspapers, magazines, reviews and periodicals and some internet websites. He has also published, a few years ago, a collection of short stories. He is now living and working in Australia.
Translated by: Ibrahim Jaffar
View their release – Adil Al-Gassas
View their release – Part of the State of being, far away, in Love with you
View their release – In the Absence of Our Default Night
Michelle Fincke‘s writing life began as a teenage cadet reporter at The Herald in Melbourne. A journalist, editor and, for a decade, a writing teacher at Victoria Polytechnic, she has been a television critic, court reporter, the Melbourne editor of the Australian Women’s Weekly, an arts publicist and once performed an original rap at a primary school assembly to the mortification of her four children. She lives in the West and is currently a freelance health/science writer.
View their release – Michelle Fincke
Dianne Lee is a registered psychologist, nurse and marriage celebrant. Since 1972 she has worked in hospitals, community clinics, prisons and education.
Dianne is passionate about celebrating love in all its forms, as the thread that connects and uplifts humanity.
Recently Dianne found a box of stories she wrote during the 1990’s.
Here are two of them.
His Own Cigarettes
Dance Me To The End Of Love.
Cheers and love,
View her release – His Own Cigarettes
View their release – Dance Me To The End Of Love.
Linton Sharples – The Slow Talking Poet – Victorian Goldfields
Linton Sharples is a Victorian Goldfields writer and poet with a disability (acquired brain injury), who has been writing since 1972, beginning with rhyming verse.
His works have been published online, and in various anthologies in the Goldfields region.
He has performed for Words in Winter Central Goldfields 2021 with late mentor, celebrated poet, Bob McKinnon, in three towns.
His goal is to inspire others with a disability to express themselves.
He has self-published his own life story in poetry form as a small anthology, “Ramblings of a Slow Talking Poet”. He writes under the pseudonym: “The Slow Talking Poet”. (November 2022.)
View their release – Linton Sharples
